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Icelandic Wines

As a follow-on to the Phillips Museum performance Thursday evening, the Ambassador from Iceland (Mr. Geir H. Haarde) hosted another performance at his residence in Washington DC yesterday (Friday evening), prior to our National Symphony Orchestra performance at The Kennedy Center later that same evening. Yes, we've been busy - and we did attend...
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I should say that we've only been interested in collecting wine in a wine ... Austria, Portugal, Spain, Iceland, England, Scotland, Wales, Australia, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand. The worst wine we have ever tasted was made in Vietnam. The best wine we have ever tasted was made in Napa Valley (Barnett). The issue of over-paying for wines ...
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@ FOX,Wow, thanks for all the tips. Not aware of what I will order while dining ... reasons. My son recommended Iceland for it's natural beauty (he power biked there for a month last year and said the country is amazing). If you saw the recent movie The Secret Life of Walter Mitty with Ben Stiller, he winds up in Iceland and the country is beau...
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Anything under 60 degrees for me is chilly also. Living in the Portland area keeps me just right. Cool winters but certainly only jacket weather (if you can stand the rain). Spring, Summer and Fall is just absolutely perfect here.For most of my life I've lived in and just outside of Chicago, now that's cold. Want to feel what an ice cube feels l...
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I looked at the wine list and I can't really tell what things cost because ... ... Jouet Belle Epoque in Iceland than it would be in NYC. So, comparatively, a good deal. Keep in mind they use decimals the way we use commas and vice versa when it comes to numbers and I guess you can just divide by 200 (or move the decimal point two spots over...
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Actually it isn't that cold there. It's been in the upper 30's during the day and low 30's during the night. People often confuse the weather with Greenland which is much colder. Because of many natural geothermal springs and geysers the temperature is not that cold.However OUTTHERE, I planned on bringing a coat and possibly a few sweater:-)
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